The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying

by DeSpelder, Lynne Ann; Strickland, Albert Lee

• ISBN13: 9780073405469
• ISBN10: 0073405469
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-08
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

The best-selling textbook in the field,The Last Danceoffers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of death and dying. Integrating the experiential, scholarly, social, individual, emotional, and intellectual dimensions of death and dying, the eighth edition of this acclaimed text has been thoroughly revised to offer cutting-edge and comprehensive coverage of death studies. Together with its companion volumes, this new edition ofThe Last Danceprovides solid grounding in theory and research, as well as practical application to students' lives.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. 1
Attitudes Toward Death: A Climate of Change	p. 5
Learning About Death: The Influence of Sociocultural Forces	p. 47
Perspectives on Death: Cultural and Historical	p. 85
Death Systems: Mortality and Society	p. 127
Health Care: Patients, Staff, and Institutions	p. 167
End-of-Life Issues and Decisions	p. 199
Facing Death: Living with Life-Threatening Illness	p. 239
Last Rites: Funerals and Body Disposition	p. 273
Survivors: Understanding the Experience of Loss	p. 311
Death in the Lives of Children and Adolescents	p. 351
Death in the Lives of Adults	p. 385
Suicide	p. 413
Threats of Horrendous Death	p. 453
Beyond Death/After Life	p. 491
The Path Ahead: Personal and Social Choices	p. 525
Epilogue	p. 551
Notes	p. 553
Credits and Sources	p. 627
Name Index	p. 631
Subject Index	p. 644
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